To my Canadian friends of Indian and Pakistani heritage — an honest question.
Another brutal “Convert or Die” massacre – this time in Pahalgam, Kashmir.
“Survivor accounts indicate the attackers targeted non-Muslims. They reportedly demanded victims recite Islamic verses and… https://t.co/GIfcox9KyC
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) April 23, 2025
These immigrants say Canada failed to plan for a population explosion. Now it’s their top election issue
Joana Valamootoo felt Canada was a welcoming place when she immigrated here from Mauritius in 2012, but that sense has faded in recent years as immigration numbers have gone up and up.
“I came here in 2012 on a francophone initiative program, an immigration program, and I was welcome, but I was also provided what I needed to succeed here,” she said.
She believes that’s no longer the case for newcomers to the country.
Bad news immigrants, there has been no intake slowdown.
Carney and his predator pal Wiseman plan on swamping Canada with even more incompatible cultures.
But we know most of you will vote Liberal anyway, you wouldn’t be here otherwise.
Last fall, Ottawa responded to a surge in public support for immigration restriction with a cut to immigration levels that it promised would “pause population growth in the short term” to ease “pressures on housing, infrastructure and social services.” But a curious question about this policy U-turn is beginning to emerge: Is Canada’s population growth really on pause?
A new report by Benjamin Tal, CIBC’s deputy chief economist, argues that the federal government is significantly overstating the effect its immigration cut will have on population growth—a statistical undercounting that could hamper Canada’s ability to plan for our social services, infrastructure, and housing needs.
The federal Liberal government is belatedly trying to fix a housing affordability crisis it created though immigration policies which caused population growth to far exceed Canada’s capacity to build new homes to accommodate it, according to a new Fraser Institute study.
“Despite unprecedented levels of immigration-driven population growth following the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has failed to ramp up homebuilding sufficiently to meet housing demand,” said Steven Globerman, co-author of the study, “The Crisis in Housing Affordability: Population Growth and Housing Starts 1972-2024.”
Canada’s new immigration curbs have slowed increases in population, but government projections of near-zero growth over the next two years are likely “off the mark,” said an economist with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
“The housing crisis of the last decade was in many ways a planning issue as under-counting of population growth has resulted in a suboptimal increase in housing supply,” he said in the report. “We fear that we are in a process of repeating past mistakes.”
Fear of Donald Trump and loathing of his tariffs have obscured other vital issues in this federal election campaign. And none is more vital than restoring confidence in Canada’s broken immigration system.
“Broken” is the right – if politically loaded – word. Even the Liberals agree that their open-door policies toward temporary workers and foreign students badly damaged the immigration system.
The issue is whether the Liberals have correctly diagnosed what went wrong and can be trusted to fix it, or whether the Conservatives could better do the job.
Immigration, all 3 mainstream parties pander. All 3 are scared to death to do what’s right.
Carney even hired “100 Million 3rd World Migrants Mark Wiseman” to destroy Canada and Poilievre didn’t have much at all to say about it.
Corporate Canada and our political class are evil.
This is not how to unify a nation.
As Canadians flex their patriotic muscles and hold “elbows up” in response to punishing U.S. tariffs, many might be surprised that another economic crisis has been percolating here for years — from inside the country.
It effectively dropped Canada into recession months ago, has left us as poor as the residents of Alabama and is so dire, the usually circumspect Bank of Canada warned it’s time to “break the glass” and sound the emergency.
For this at least, U.S President Donald Trump can’t be blamed.
How best to sum up the current Canadian political situation? “Mark Carney looks like Paul Martin — and baby boomers think it’s still the 1990’s.” Their children, however — and their grandchildren — know nothing of such Liberal leaders. They live in the current decade. Consequently, an unprecedented divide now exists between Canadians this election cycle, segregated by age.
Older Canadians are likely to be property owners.
How do you maintain home equity in Canada?
By keeping the mass-immigration floodgates open to sustain the housing shortage.
Sure the Liberals have made superficial reductions to migrant intake but it’s just smoke and mirrors.
You don’t as Carney has done hire on a mass-immigration lunatic like Mark Wiseman as your advisor if you don’t intend to further impoverish Canadians by flooding the country with incompatible cultures.
Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman says "a lot of the screening" of immigrants is "a waste of time".
"Let's let people in by and large, and if we have to do the screening ex post, that's fine" pic.twitter.com/SIGOepeUrQ
— Riley Donovan (@valdombre) March 27, 2025
Amid rising numbers of asylum seekers in Quebec from the U.S., Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is urging the federal government to speed up processing and distribute arrivals more evenly across the country.
“We need to act. We need to move much more quickly,” Blanchet said at a campaign stop in Ottawa on Tuesday.
For more than a year, immigration has been at the forefront of the political agenda, and the subject of heated exchanges in the Commons. Polls have shown that Canadians’ long-standing support for increasing the number of new arrivals has dropped in the past two years, amid fears about the cost of housing and strains on health care.
But during the election campaign so far, immigration has been relegated to a second-tier concern. The threat to the economy and job security posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other “pocketbook issues” has eclipsed it as an issue, even though border security – fuelled by Mr. Trump’s barbs about illegal migration from Canada – has been in the spotlight for months.
No other artists have dared capture the tragicomedy of the capital’s multiculturalism.
Art duo Gilbert and George object to the term ‘gentrification’ to describe the ongoing overhaul to the east London neighbourhood that has been their home for almost 60 years. ‘We think it’s classist and sexist, because you’d never say ladyfication. Or Jewification. Or blackification. Or Bangladeshification’, they once informed the Guardian, with their signature prankishness. ‘They’ve only got it in for white people. It’s punishing the honkies.’
The CBSA said the three businesses pleaded guilty to employing a foreign national without authorization on Feb. 28, 2025.
CDA Landscape Services faced 20 counts of the aforementioned charge, while TDA Landscape Services and SDA Services, all located in Oshawa, faced two counts each. The CBSA said CDA Landscape Services was fined $400,000, TDA Landscape Services was fined $25,000, and SDA Services was fined $25,000.
With finite housing and overstretched public services, the government’s ‘cack-handed’ border policies have triggered a wave of public anger
Driving through Dublin in his taxi, Gavin Pepper gestures down a stretch of pavement. “You wouldn’t go there at night,” he says. “There’s gangs of foreign men hanging around all over the city. You don’t see many Irish people walking there any more.”
It’s the sort of forthright remark that tends to stay in a cabbie’s front seat. But Pepper no longer speaks only as a taxi driver. He’s now a councillor for Finglas, a working-class district of north Dublin, elected on a wave of public anger over migration.
He says his election was driven by a migration policy handed down from on high – imposed, as he puts it, by Ireland’s political elite on poorer communities with no say in the matter. “You’re punching a wall that won’t break,” he says. “They have all the money, all the power, all the NGOs.”
We have the same evil pricks in Canada.
No leads on trucker charged in deaths of mom, daughter
More than four months after a semi-truck driver was charged in a collision that killed a Manitoba mother and daughter and then fled, police say they are no closer to finding the Ontario man.
Navjeet Singh, 25, of Brampton, is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. He was charged Nov. 20 with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and a single count of obstructing a peace officer
h/t AL
A controversial appointment put migration in the headlines on the same weekend that Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a snap election.
The investment fund manager and former head of the Bank of Canada, who won the Liberal leadership contest two weeks ago, became the subject of news stories focusing on how he has chosen Mark Wiseman, an advocate for open borders, as a key adviser.
Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman says “a lot of the screening” of immigrants is “a waste of time”.
“Let’s let people in by and large, and if we have to do the screening ex post, that’s fine” pic.twitter.com/SIGOepeUrQ
— Riley Donovan (@valdombre) March 27, 2025
